mattcanning
2006-01-09 10:41 pm UTC (link)
Oh come on. Do you have no concept of expenses in the real world? I'm not a teenager living in my parents basement (anymore)...I have almost $65,000 in house debt I'm working very hard to pay down. Literally every penny I make outside from the ~ 2-3K a month I have in expenses goes towards the house. It's not like I'm living large. Maybe in a couple of years when the mortgage is paid in full and I have next to nothing in living expenses, but right now every little bit helps (or hurts).
I could make a few hundred dollars on a given day and it's not like I really have any true ownership of this money. As far as I'm concerned, I have -$65,000 to my name. Next month it might be -$63,000 or - $60,000, but it will be in the red for a while.
Something I find a lot of people doing is using other people's money like it is their own. Whether it be VISA, the bank, friends who they borrow it from, or whoever else. This is flawed thinking and will keep everyone in a financial rut. But I do admit that knowing that I have the ability to acquire the resources I need helps my confidence through things like this.